Head of Commissioning

The role

The Head of Commissioning will build and lead the function responsible for commissioning physical infrastructure for AI Factories across Asia Pacific. This person will set strategy, standards, and governance to ensure facilities are safe, resilient, and performing to design.

What you will do

• Build, lead and develop a team of Commissioning Managers and professionals.
• Define the structure, capability and resourcing model for the function.
• Allocate leadership and resources across the portfolio of AI Factory projects.
• Set the strategic direction for AI Factory commissioning including methodology and acceptance criteria.
• Direct the development of commissioning standards, frameworks and templates.
• Set up governance, assurance and reporting for commissioning progress and quality.
• Ensure commissioning strategies cover power distribution, liquid cooling, air-side cooling, controls, and life-safety systems.
• Act as the final escalation point for complex technical issues and acceptance decisions.
• Own the facility ready for IT gate and handover to operations.
• Oversee the commissioning budget, schedule, cost and risk across the portfolio.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, or a related discipline.
• 12+ years’ experience in mission-critical or data centre environments.
• Substantial experience leading commissioning programmes.
• Proven experience leading and developing commissioning managers or multi-disciplinary commissioning teams across multiple concurrent projects.
• Strong understanding of L1–L5 commissioning and IST for large-scale critical power, liquid and air cooling, and controls systems.
• Experience building or maturing a commissioning function, methodology or standards in a growing organisation.
• Strong commercial acumen, including budget ownership and managing commissioning agents, contractors and OEMs.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and report clearly and credibly to executive leadership.
• A strong safety leadership record.
• Ownership and delivery mindset.

Nice to have

• Commissioning of high-density AI/HPC environments, including direct-to-chip liquid cooling combined with air-side cooling.
• Experience with hyperscale or GPU cloud builds and the handover into IT/cluster commissioning.
• Experience introducing digital commissioning platforms and automated testing.

About the company

Firmus Technologies is a global leader pioneering the development and operation of efficient AI infrastructure across Asia Pacific. The company designs, builds, and operates AI Factories using model-to-grid technology.